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(No Model.) 2 Sheets-Sheet 1. H. S. S. POOKS. TRAVELING INKSTAND.

No. 450.066. Patented Apr 7, 1891.

No Model.) 2 sheets sheet 2.

H.'S.' s. F'OOKS TRAVELING INKSTAND.

No. 450,066 PatentedApr. 7, 1891.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

HENRY SYHES SHORLAND FOOKS, QF BRIGHTON, ENGLAND.

TRAVELING INKSTAND.-

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 450,066, dated April 7, 1891;

Application filed August 18, 1890- Serial No. 362,361. (No model.)

cleaning pens suitable to be used with such inkstands.

To enable my invention to be properly understood, I will proceed to fully describe the same with aid of the accompanying drawings, which show the invention as applied to a traveling inkstand.

Figure l is a perspective view of an inkstand, showing the invention as proposed to be applied; Fig.2, a partial sectional view Fig. 3, a plan; Fig. 4, a detached perspective view of cleaner; Fig. 5, a view showing application of pen to cleaner.

The case a, which holds the ink-bottle, is made with a space in front of the bottle by the insertion of a plate I) suitably secured. Within this space the pen-cleaner is proposed to be carried. This cleaner consists of preferably two corrugated plates A 13, carried in the space in front of the ink-bottle. These plates are preferred to be lined with an inkabsorbing material C, such as chaniois-leather. The plates are held apart by a bow-spring D, the plate A being fitted with an outside but-- ton E to enable it to be pressed close against B,when,if a pen has been previouslyinserted,

as at Fig. 5, and the plate A pressed against plate '13, on withdrawing the pen it will be cleaned. If the plate A is pressed hard enough, the pen will be held sufficiently tight to enable it to be drawn from its holder.

Fis a pin secured to plate B or b and a to prevent the latter from being bent in by the pressing in of the usual button G to open the lid of the inkstand.

Instead of plates A and B being corrugated, they may be fiat plates with an extra coating of soft material for the pen-nib to-be pressed into by the plate A, or the latter may be used alone, the division 1) taking the place of B.

It will be readily understood that this cleaner can be fitted in a case and stand entirely separate from the inkstand; but it is preferred to be used with such; also, that any known kind of pen-cleaner could be put in the space described for the cleaner, according to this invention.

Having described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States, is i The combination, with a traveling inkstand made with a space to hold a pen-cleaner, of a pen-cleaner consisting of 'two plates A B, an ink-absorbing material between the plates, a spring to hold the plates apart, and a button to enable one plate to be pressed against the other, as described and set forth.

HENRY SYMES SHORLAND FOOKS.

Witnesses:

WILSON SrUoKEY,

N otary Public, Brighton, England. ALBERT GEORGE BURGESS,

Clerk to the said Wilson Smokey. 

